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WILLIAM BARRY AND LEON H. PRENTIOE, OFOHIOAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOSE-PIPES AND NOZZLES.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No.,l50,74r2, dated May 12, 1874; application .filed I September 22, 1873.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that weWILLIAM BARRY and LEON H. PEENTICE, of the city of Chicago, in the county of vCook and State of Illinois, 'have invented new .and useful Improvements in Pipes and Nozzles, of which the following is a fulldescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure l is an elevation, Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, Fig. 3 a section of a pipe provided with a larger nozzle, and Fig. 4 a section of a larger nozzle of smaller size to be used therewith.

- In making hose-pipes and nozzles of large size, or for house and garden use, the pipe is made without a complete nozzle, and each pipe is furnished with a detachable complete'nozzle, and if it is desired to use nozzles of Vtwo different sizes with the same pipe two sepa rate detachable nozzles are always used. It is customary to contract the opening through the nozzle at the outer end thereof', as represented in the drawings, to increase the force of the discharge.

. Our inventionconsistsin so constructing the hose-pipe that in the end thereof there shall be l a complete nozzle forming part of the pipe itself, and A in providing the side of the pipe with a projection adapted to receive and hold a second nozzle or a rose when not in use.

In the drawings, A represents a hose-pipe, in the end of which is a complete nozzle, C, forming part of the pipe itself, the opening in the nozzle proper being suddenly contracted at the point a. Theend of the pipe A is provided with a screw-thread, a', to receive either a rose, B, or a second nozzle, F, which is provided with a coupling-screw. D is a projection on the side of the pipe A adapted to receive and hold the nozzle F or-'rose B when not in use. f

Itis frequently desirable to use nozzles of y two sizes with the same pipe. As we construct the device one nozzlen is placed in the end of the pipe itself as a part thereof, and a second nozzle, F, of smaller size, is provided detachable from the pipe.

In Fig. 2 is represented a pipe with a very small nozzle, adapted to be used for ordinary house purposes, or in, connection with a de tachable rose, B. When this rose is removed a perfect nozzle is left in the pipe itself, and it is not necessary to use a detachable nozzle.

This construction has the following advantages: The hose-pipe has in itself one complete nozzle, which is suficient for ordinaryl WILLIAM BARRY. LEON H. PRENTIOE.

Q Witnesses:

' E. A. WEST, O. W. BOND. 

